Ana Carolina Vaz made a need – nappies for her dog – into a business. The idea became a company, gained sustainability, and is now on the foreign market. Dog’s Care revenues grow 100% each year.
The city, whose port received thousands of immigrants, among them Arabs, grows at the rhythm of new oil discoveries, national and foreign investment and Petrobras works.
The Middle East accounted for US$ 4.3 billion, or 4.5% of the total. There is a perspective of growth for the whole of 2010.
The figure shipped to the Arab world by companies that count on support from Apex, the government’s export and investment fostering agency, accounted for 41% of sales from the country to the region.
Nahida Alzeben, the wife of the ambassador of Palestine, visited Acre to teach Arab embroidery techniques to a group of women. Now she wants to take Indians to Palestine.
Cocamar Industrial Cooperative, from Paraná, plans to double exports of industrialized products, like non-alcoholic drinks, next year. Target markets are Libya, the Emirates and Oman.
The discovery was made offshore, 140 kilometres away from state capital Vitória. The Brazilian company owns the concession to the well alongside the Norwegian Statoil.
Consultancy firm Serasa Experian pointed out that 85% of Brazilian entrepreneurs, out of 1,015 interviewees, hope for greater earnings in the first quarter next year.
The Brazilian president says he leaves the head of the bloc and of the country satisfied with the union reached by the nations that are members and added that he wants no international political post.
The Arab country has opened an office of its phosphate company in São Paulo. The objective is to establish partnerships with Petrobras and Vale for the production of fertilizers in Brazil.
Arab country’s foreign minister told the Brazilian government that exports from the South American bloc may grow six-fold with trade deal. Negotiation is at a standstill due to petrochemical industry.
The positive result is a consequence of people hired and dismissed from January until November. Last month, Rio de Janeiro was the state that had the most new jobs.
Pinesso Group, a great agricultural producer in the state of Mato Grosso, is picking the first cotton crop in the Arab country. In 2011, the 400 hectares should be expanded to 20,000 hectares.
The head of the ministry of Economy, Hassan Abu-Libdeh, said he hopes it is possible to complete a free trade agreement in 2011. He is in Brazil for the summit of the South American bloc.
